14 February 2012

Editorial: Taiwan’s Election Beacon

By Yang Yi

The Taiwan presidential election last month sparked renewed debate on social media about democracy in mainland China.  Interestingly, the Chinese Communist Party seemed to hold off a little on online social media censorship. Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, was, by all accounts, buzzing with comments about the election as it happened. Millions followed the campaign, the debates and the results online.

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